United States Naval Academy Trident Scholar Program

MIDN 1/C ELLYN A. CREASEY (16^th Company)

Major	Quantitative Economics
Advisor	Assistant Professor Ahmed S. Rahman, Economics Department
Advisor	Assistant Professor Katherine A. Smith, Economics Department
Title	A Question of Development: Aid in the Post-Conflict Context

MIDN 1/C KYLE R. ENGLUND-KRIEGER (29^th Company)

Major	Physics
Advisor	Assistant Professor Richard Witt, Physics Department
Title	Strangeness Production in 19.6 GeV Collisions at RHIC

MIDN 1/C LUKE P. FINNEY (13^th Company)

Major	Aerospace Engineering
Advisor	Assistant Professor Eric N. Hallberg, Aerospace Engineering Department
Title	An Investigation of Cavity Flow Effects on Store Separation Trajectories

MIDN 1/C JAMES H. GOLDEN (6^th Company)

Major	Mechanical Engineering
Advisor	Associate Professor Mark M. Murray, Mechanical Engineering Department
Advisor	Associate Professor Andrew N. Smith, Mechanical Engineering Department
Title	Convective Heat Transfer Enhancement Using Alternating Magnetic Fields and Particle Laden Fluid Applied to the Microscale

MIDN 1/C JASON C. MURPHY (19^th Company)

Major	Naval Architecture
Advisor	Professor Gregory J. White, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department
Advisor	Associate Professor Michael P. Schultz, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department
Title	A Novel Approach to Turbulence Stimulation for Ship-Model Testing

MIDN 1/C MATTHEW A. PORTER (23^rd Company)

Major	Electrical Engineering
Advisor	Associate Professor John G. Ciezki, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Advisor	Associate Professor Thomas E. Salem, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Title	Optimizing High Power DC-DC Converter Design Utilizing SiC Field Effect Transistors and Nanocrystalline-Structured Alloy Cores

MIDN 1/C MATTHEW L. ROBERTS (14^th Company)

Major	Aerospace Engineering
Advisor	Commander R. Joseph Watkins, USN, Mechanical Engineering Department
Advisor	Professor Oscar Barton, Jr., Mechanical Engineering Department
Advisor	Visiting Professor Craig E. Steidle, Aerospace Engineering Department
Title	Determination of the Error Induced by Platform Vibrations on a Directed Energy Beam System

MIDN 1/C ANGELA M. ROUSH (14^th Company)

Major	Aerospace Engineering
Advisor	Professor Oscar Barton, Jr., Mechanical Engineering Department
Advisor	Commander R. Joseph Watkins, USN, Mechanical Engineering Department
Title	Dynamic Analysis of an Optical Laser Platform

MIDN 1/C KAYLA J. SAX (20^th Company)

Major	Systems Engineering (Honors)
Advisor	Professor Martin E. Nelson, Mechanical Engineering Department
Advisor	Professor Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department
Advisor	Captain Charles B. Cameron, USN, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Advisor	Visiting Research Professor James F. Ziegler, Physics Department
Title	Characterization and Comparison of New Concepts in Neutron Detection

 

Revised 16 November 2009 

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